Photo credit: Picatostes Captain Trips is the name given to the fictional super-flu virus in Stephen King’s novel, The Stand. In the novel, this flu, which originated as a biological weapon that got away, is so treacherous that it wipes out nearly the entire world’s population aside from a few thousand people. These people are [...]

Book Review: Cluck: Murder Most Fowl I fretted about how to begin this review for hours. I was afraid that if I came right out with the basic premise—how a boy with a very special gift is whisked away to a chicken-obsessed secret society in France to learn the fine-points of poultry exorcism, and then [...]

Photo Credit: Drunken Monkey As you can imagine, yesterday’s CNN exposure sparked quite a bit of attention: telephone lines were jammed; reporters with microphones were clawing at my door; a string of local news vans were scattered along the front yard; helicopters were circling; and there were at least TWICE as many supermodels hanging around [...]

Photo credit: jek_in_the_box Sunday Scribblings is a blog with the purpose of inspiring and motivating writers. They do this by posting a weekly “prompt” which serious writers can use as a topic to craft deep-thinking and skillfully written blog posts. The links to these posts are then added to the site’s link list as inspiration [...]